I'm really not doing business

Chapter 593 Shed-style secret excavation method
In those days, one hundred taels of silver could buy more than twenty maids, even if it was not a year of disaster. This was the terrifying purchasing power of one hundred taels of silver. Speaking of being cheated, that Li Niang cheated Song Rendong out of twenty-four taels of silver, which was enough for Song Rendong to be cheated four times.

Song Rendong also knew the value of one hundred taels of silver, but he sent the one hundred taels of silver to the legal office of the official factory and handed it over to the public. The reason was also very interesting. He was very happy to find one hundred taels of silver, and very anxious to lose one hundred taels of silver, so he dared not steal it.

People who find one hundred taels of silver would be ecstatic, while people who lose one hundred taels of silver would be anxious, so they dare not and cannot steal.

Zhu Yijun thought that Feng Bao had not done his job well and revealed some obvious flaws. After asking in detail, he found out that it was not the case. There was no flaw in the whole process. He just picked up the silver on the roadside. There were both whole and small pieces of silver, but no official silver. They were all silver ingots from the people, and there were also quite a few silver coins.

There were no obvious tracing marks, and even if Song Rendong left the silver behind, he wouldn't be able to find many clues.

"I asked him to go to a brothel to have fun, how is it going?" Zhu Yijun did not arrange the plot of the owner looking for the silver and Song Rendong being thrown into jail. The one hundred taels of silver was just to give him the confidence to go to a brothel to have fun.

Not more, not less, just enough for him to see the true face of the brothel girl.

The best treatment for dog licking disease is to do it several times a day.

"This matter went very smoothly!" Feng Bao was very excited when he talked about this. He failed in the first task because he did not expect Song Rendong to really return the money. But Feng Bao did a great job in the second task!
Make all the arrangements for Song Rendong clear.

"At first, Song Rendong bought a bottle of wine worth one or two silver coins. The girl in the building was really charming. She kept saying "my dear brother" and made Song Rendong so fascinated that his heart almost melted. But after the wine was finished, he had to buy more. Song Rendong was a little reluctant to spend it. After all, the silver was not blown by the wind from the sky, but earned by mining coal bit by bit in the kiln."

"Song Rendong was reluctant to spend the money and stopped buying wine. He was still reluctant to leave, which made the girl angry. After several attempts to persuade him, Song Rendong still refused to buy wine and was unwilling to leave. The girl cursed him for being a poor guy. Anyway... the curse was quite ugly." Feng Bao did not repeat the curses from all walks of life in front of His Majesty, as they were really too ugly.

"Tell me more specifically." Zhu Yijun was curious about how he cursed.

"If you know, sir, you will probably label me a flatterer who spreads slander." Feng Bao waved his hands repeatedly. His Majesty might think that words like "a thousand men riding on ten thousand men" and "you can spread your legs if you pay" were unpleasant to hear. After all, His Majesty was really angry at the time. But in fact, these words were also the truth, which was far from the insults on the streets.

"Forget it." Zhu Yijun waved his hands. He could imagine what the curse was. It was nothing more than about his parents suffering and being filthy.

"Song Rendong was carried out of the building by someone. He finally understood who Li Niang, the woman he had been thinking about, was. News came this morning that Song Rendong ran to the gate of Xishan Coal Bureau, kowtowed, and went to work." Feng Bao had people keeping an eye on Song Rendong. Song Rendong had not slept all night and tossed and turned. He kowtowed at the gate of Xishan Coal Bureau in the morning, which was considered an admission of his mistake.

Feng Bao smiled and said, "He didn't sleep all night and couldn't go to work. He was caught by the legal officer of the official factory who was checking the rattan hat. He was told to go back to sleep and go to work tomorrow."

The Legal Affairs Office, which was in charge of investigating rattan hats, was responsible for ensuring production safety in government-run factories. Wang Qian was once investigated by the Legal Affairs Office.

Most of the clerks in the Legislative Affairs Office were elite soldiers from the Beijing camp or foreign soldiers. They adhered to the principle that rules were above all else when doing their work. Song Rendong looked listless, so the Legislative Affairs Office thought that he had spent the whole night with a girl, and they simply did not allow him to go down the well.

"Let's go to court. Bring my landlubber here." After hearing the outcome of the incident, Zhu Yijun smiled and pedaled his landlubber along the small railway all the way to the Wenhua Palace, where he braked steadily.

"Your Majesty, it's called the Cunwu Chariot! It's not a landlubber!" Feng Bao said stubbornly. Cunwu is the Golden Crow, the sun bird, and Cunwu is the name given by Feng Bao.

"Aren't you still a landlubber?" Zhu Yijun happily took off his rattan hat, hung it on the car, and went to court.

Zhu Yijun was immersed in his daily busyness, while Song Rendong was still unable to sleep. The kiln workers' bunk beds certainly did not smell good, but they were kept very clean because the officials from the Legislative Affairs Office had checked too carefully.

In the fourth year of the Wanli reign, a plague broke out in the government-run factory. The plague continued to occur one after another, and Wang Chonggu was extremely anxious. Finally, he invited a senior medical officer to take a look.

When the chief medical officer saw the condition of the factory dormitories, he immediately said that it was all due to poor hygiene. Wouldn't that lead to the spread of plague?
Hygiene and Simple Prescriptions is not the first medical book to discuss hygiene. In fact, hygiene has been discussed in medical techniques throughout the ages.

There were sixteen kiln workers in one large bunk bed. Their clothes were piled up and fermented, and their toiletries were not washed and mixed. It would be strange if they didn't get sick!
Zhang Juzheng said that overcorrection is inevitable. Wang Chonggu didn't know much about hygiene, so he went to invite General Yu Dayou from the Military Academy. After all, maintaining hygiene in the army is an important part of the marching process. If they encounter a major epidemic, they will be defeated without a fight.

For example, when Sun Quan attacked Hefei, he did not maintain good sanitation, which resulted in an epidemic. He was trampled to the ground by Zhang Liao's eight hundred men to gain military merit. Since then, Sun Quan and Sun Shiwan have been laughed at for thousands of years.

Yu Dayou was not familiar with the official factory, so he could only take out "Jixiao Xinshu" and "Lianbing Shiji" to give to Wang Chonggu. After all, Qi Jiguang was more professional when it came to training soldiers, and he wrote about how to train soldiers in great detail.

Overcorrection is inevitable. The hygiene of the kiln residents has improved, but it is a bit too much.

Song Rendong hugged the quilt, covered his head, and started crying because there was no one around. His tears became more and more painful. This matter is like drinking the water, only the person who drinks it knows whether it is hot or cold. Only Song Rendong himself knew how turbulent Song Rendong's mood was.

Yesterday in the brothel, he seemed to see Li Niang again. The girl who persuaded him to buy wine, every frown and smile, was exactly the same as Li Niang. Those cups of wine were as if he had returned to the past. He was addicted to it, but after he didn't buy wine, the girl's ridicule and scolding were exactly the same as Li Niang's.

Song Rendong finally remembered the disdain and sarcasm in Li Niang's eyes when she called him a poor bastard.

The person a person likes may just be the person he or she has imagined. This is also a process of self-deception and self-alienation. The white moonlight in one's heart is not the person's true appearance.

Song Rendong cried and finally fell asleep. A guard from the Northern Pacification Office who was standing by the window heard no movement from inside and thought something had happened, so he gently pushed the door open, took the man's pulse and found that he was asleep. He waited for a quarter of an hour before leaving.

Zhu Yijun was in the Wenhua Hall, flipping through Wang Chonggu's memorials, slamming the table and saying, "I forbid it! Wang Ci Fu, you are still asking for credit for this Song Rendong?! How much trouble has he caused you? He was upset and even complained to me. Yesterday was the day of the dividend distribution, a happy day, and he went to complain to you. It would have been fine if you had pleaded for him yesterday, but now you are asking for credit for him?"

"No."

"Your Majesty, you can't abandon the matter because of one person." Wang Chonggu said tentatively: "Your Majesty, how about taking a look at the memorial?"

Zhu Yijun got a headache when he saw the name Song Rendong, and ended up giving Song Rendong a good beating early in the morning. All of Song Rendong's good mood was ruined by Wang Chonggu. As the victim, Wang Chonggu didn't care about it for the sake of fame, so the matter was naturally dropped. However, Wang Chonggu asked for credit for him, which was too generous.

"Let me see what's going on." Zhu Yijun then began to read the memorial seriously.

"Well, he's good at reading and mathematics. He graduated from a craftsman's school. He's very clever and can improve equipment, huh?" Zhu Yijun frowned and said blankly, "What do you mean by being inspired by watching shipworms and using wood and steel as skeletons to dig?"

"It's the shipworms that give me inspiration. Once they drill into wood, they will never come out, unless the wood is completely hollowed out. Apart from not being able to figure out matters like love, Song Rendong is quite clever." Wang Chonggu took out a painting from his sleeve.

Shipworms are also known as ship maggots. Not only do these creatures look ugly, they can also cause irreparable damage to ships, making them the mortal enemy of the shipbuilding industry.

The head of the shipworm has a serrated hard shell that can drill through hardwood. Wood also expands and contracts when heated and cooled. The shipworms destroy the tung oil and lacquer on the surface of the wood, which will cause the wood to become damp. In both cases, the holes dug by the shipworms will flatten the wood due to the expansion.

But shipworms secrete a kind of mucus that hardens and becomes extremely strong, leaving a channel. In this way, they will not be crushed to death by the expansion of the wood due to moisture and heat.

This is similar to underground coal mining. Underground coal mining will cause groundwater leakage and lead to landslides, but Song Rendong came up with an invention.

Thirty-six two-story work units are constructed of hardwood or steel, and then a craftsman digs coal in each work unit. The work surface is covered with wooden boards to prevent it from collapsing. The wooden boards are removed and chiseled in, and then covered with wooden boards to prevent collapse. This corresponds to the serrated hard shell of the shipworm.

After mining the coal, the corresponding mucus parts must be fixed by using stones, wood frames, iron frames, etc. at key parts, and pouring lime cement to harden them to prevent landslides.

The whole frame was moved forward, also using hydraulic jacks. After all the working faces in front were excavated, thirty-six craftsmen began to get off the vehicle and use hydraulic jacks to prop up the whole frame, and then pushed it forward to complete the advance.

Zhu Yijun finally figured out that what Song Rendong had come up with was the hand-dug shield method!
It is something that works on the same principle as the shield machines of later generations. The shield machines are industrial monsters in the era of electrification, but the shield method is a way of thinking for underground operations that ensures both efficiency and safety.

"Your Majesty, it's not just about coal mining. Juyongguan has a four-mile-long tunnel. In the process of building the highway, we will inevitably encounter the situation of building tunnels, so we need this kind of shed-type underground excavation method." Wang Chonggu named this method the shed-type underground excavation method.

Wang Chonggu said with a complicated expression, "Your Majesty, I have never considered myself to be an old stubborn person. I do not think that the emergence of the shed-style secret excavation method is heretical, provocative, and should be burned. He is stupid in the love affairs of men and women, and he has little contact with them. After all, he is only seventeen years old. But he is indeed worthy of praise. He represents a kind of... new power."

"I really cannot imagine what an educated craftsman can do. I am too old."

People always divide new inventions and creations into three categories: inventions that existed before people were born are taken for granted and nothing special; before the age of thirty, those things that seem incredible and creative are worth investing in and working hard for; new things that appear after the age of thirty-five are monsters that make the world collapse.

Wang Chonggu is old, but he is not a stubborn old man. Instead, he is positive about the application of these inventions. He cannot make creative inventions himself, but he cannot become an obstacle to such inventions. He, Wang Chonggu, is the leader of the Labour Party, not a Confucian scholar.

Song Rendong is a representative of the new generation, or the most typical representative of educated craftsmen. The Craftsmen's School focuses on engineering, that is, mathematics, basic mechanical principles, levers, inclined planes, pulleys, screws, and now hydraulics, etc., but it does not focus on the Four Books and Five Classics. It is also helpless, mainly because it is difficult to find a good teacher to teach the Four Books and Five Classics.

"Your Majesty, the children who used to run around barefoot in the Artisan School have grown up." Wang Chonggu said with a sigh: "They are like the rising sun."

The Xishan Coal Bureau and the government-run factory groups created the law from scratch. Now it is time for these kids to grow up and shine. The light they emit is very dazzling, but of course it is also a bit foolish and inexperienced.

This is not a big problem. On the road to growth, you will stumble and fall a few times, and then you will slowly understand it.

"Your Majesty, public is public and private is private." Zhang Juzheng was very familiar with Wang Chonggu's sense of humor.

How could Zhang Juzheng not watch such a big fun, when the people sued the officials, and the ungrateful people Wang Chonggu had raised himself bit him back? However, the changes brought to production by these educated craftsmen caught Zhang Juzheng's attention.

"It's like I can't distinguish between public and private affairs, and rewards and punishments are unclear!" Zhu Yijun said helplessly: "Okay, since Wang Ci Fu has recommended him for merit, then let's approve it. However, this method he came up with is indeed promising."

Many inventions are created to solve practical problems. The Ming Dynasty is now facing some difficulties in underground operations, coal mining and tunnel digging. There are mountains that cannot be bypassed, and it is also difficult to cross the mountains. Tunnels are the only solution.

Song Rendong and his group of educated craftsmen always have more ideas than the old craftsmen.

"I was surprised yesterday that Wang Ci Fu actually let him go. It turns out he is such a useful person." Zhu Yijun thought that Wang Chonggu's temper had improved.

Wang Chonggu's revenge was exactly the same as Zhang Juzheng's, and his methods were even more dirty. When a lowly scholar impeached Wang Chonggu, Wang Chonggu set a trap to trick the censors into kneeling at the Meridian Gate. When the Ming Emperor came to the Meridian Gate, he was persuaded to leave by Hai Rui. The materials for "The Romantic Affair of the Famous Scholars of the Qing Dynasty" were all provided by Wang Chonggu's son Wang Qian.

These bigwigs have shown similarities in the four words "revenge for a slight", which is actually normal. Good people are often bullied. In the officialdom, the biggest arena of fame and fortune, if you don't fight back when you are beaten or scolded, you will never have to think about making progress. Failure to make progress is equivalent to death.

Wang Chonggu was a little troubled by Song Rendong, but Wang Chonggu was so generous as to let him go. There was a reason for this. Song Rendong deserved Wang Chonggu's favor.

"But now he should have let go of the matter of love." Zhu Yijun briefly recounted how he had framed Song Rendong and shared his happiness.

Visit a brothel twice and you won’t suffer from the pain of love.

Sharing one happiness with others means two happinesses. The court officials could only laugh at the emperor's strange idea.

"Your Majesty, I have a piece of advice. Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and billions of people look up to you. How can you entertain the common people by making things difficult for them? A gentleman should learn the way and love others. I think this is not good and should not be done by a gentleman." When Hai Rui heard His Majesty's nonsense, he immediately stood up and bowed his head.

What does it mean that the emperor sends people to brothels?
Zhu Yijun immediately knew why, both the Taoist priest and the late emperor hated Hai Rui.

Nagging. As the supreme emperor, if someone nags in his ear every day, saying this is not right, that is not right, then the emperor will naturally get annoyed.

"Mr. Hai, what do you think we should do? How about exiling Song Rendong to Java? After all, he is a false accusation and is guilty of a crime." Wan Shihe asked slowly.

"We should give him some advice." Hai Rui said with a complicated expression.

Wan Shihe immediately smiled and said, "General Hai, there is a saying that a thousand words are not as good as one experience. Do you think it makes sense? Didn't Song Rendong have any friends who grew up with him to persuade him? Not to mention friends, when he sued the government, didn't Shen Yikuan and Wang Xiyuan persuade him? Was it useful?"

"Let's not talk about the distant past. Hai Zongxian is in the Censorate. Are the censors in the Censorate's advice of any use? A water carrier who caused a lot of trouble in the city went to work at the Xishan Coal Bureau and complained that the food was not good, the sleep was not good, the accommodation was not good, and there were only two days of work in a month. It was more like an outing than work, and he kept complaining."

"That's true." Hai Rui fell silent. If persuasion was useful, there would be no despicable Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

The best way to grow is through experience. If you are full of beautiful fantasies about love between young people, then it is enough to break these fantasies.

The emperor arranged for someone to take Song Rendong to visit a brothel. This did seem unreliable, but Hai Rui could not think of a better way.

"No, but it's also correct." Hai Rui thought for a moment, and finally reluctantly admitted that this was not a solution, but it was also a solution.

It is just like Hai Rui's evaluation of Zhang Cheng and Zhang Jin, and his drawing of points for foreign ships. It is not right, but it is not incorrect.

The court needs moral role models like Hai Rui to become a model in the court and a sharp blade to kill corrupt officials. It also needs Wan Shi and this panacea to act as a lubricant. Both play irreplaceable roles.

"Your Majesty, do you want to revise the History of Yuan Dynasty?" As the Minister of Rites, Shen Li proposed a proposal to revise the History of Yuan Dynasty.

Looking back at the thousands of years of history of the Central Plains, the most crude historical record is not the "History of Ming Dynasty" compiled by the Qing Dynasty. The History of Ming Dynasty was compiled very carefully, mainly because of the political needs of the Qing Dynasty. Many things could not be said, so it could only be compiled carefully, which can be said to be extremely profound.

The least serious historical record is the "Book of Jin", which is called the Magic Catalog. Although the Book of Jin is full of various magic, it generally follows the historical context. The reason why it is magical is that the loss of historical materials due to wars is too serious, so it is full of bizarre stories.

Fang Xuanling really tried his best when compiling "Book of Jin".

The History of Song, Liao and Jin was completed in three years by Tuotuo, the prime minister at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Shouldn't the History of Song, Liao and Jin be the most crude historical book?
It's really not.

In fact, the history of Song, Liao and Jin dynasties had been compiled intermittently since the time of Kublai Khan, and it had been going on for nearly a hundred years, but it had not been completed because it was unclear who the official version was.

If the Song Dynasty is the legitimate one, then the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty were sometimes brothers and sometimes nephews. Which one is the dominant one?

Those who advocate that the Jin Dynasty was the legitimate dynasty believe that the Southern Song Emperor Zhao Gou once submitted to the Jin Dynasty. After all, the three words "I, Gou Yan" were written by Zhao Gou himself in the letter to the Jin Dynasty.

But Song was not the legitimate dynasty, but he was the emperor of Central Plains. Wasn’t this an slap in the face of Kublai Khan?

When Kublai Khan went to the grassland to fight against Ariq Böke, he was fighting under the banner of the Emperor of Central Plains.

This issue has been debated back and forth hundreds of times during the less than 100-year reign of the Yuan Dynasty, with no result. There must be an orthodoxy and a partial peace.

Finally, the whole world was in turmoil, and the prime minister of the late Yuan Dynasty, Toghto, gathered all the historical materials together, and each school of thought was orthodox, and the compilation was completed. Although the compilation took only three years, the historical materials are still very complete. Although there are conflicts, they are generally consistent.

The crudest historical book ever compiled is the History of Yuan Dynasty.

Song Lian and Wang Xi began to compile history after receiving the imperial order. It took a total of 331 days to complete the work, including Song Lian, the president. There were a total of people who completed the work and handed it in. The work was so sloppy that they didn't even do any proofreading. Although the Yuan Dynasty lasted less than a hundred years, it was completed in less than a year, which was really too sloppy.

It only took two or three days to revise a volume. Even Wan Shihe, who was compiling the "Records of Overseas Foreign Countries", did not fool the emperor in this way.

How sloppy was this? Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty suddenly wanted to read the History of Yuan Dynasty. After reading it for a long time, he found that it was almost completely irrelevant and weird, so he had to order Xie Jin to revise it.

Xie Jin took the task and started working on this matter with a few people. They successively revised "Correct Errors in the History of Yuan Dynasty", "Supplement to the History of Yuan Dynasty" and "Explanation of the History of Yuan Dynasty". After they were completed, Zhu Di was too lazy to read them and stuffed them all into the Yongle Encyclopedia.

After that, no one ever proposed to revise the history of Yuan Dynasty. It can be seen that since the establishment of Ming Dynasty, the orthodox status of Hu Yuan was recognized, but it was recognized with a pinched nose. Although it was recognized, there was no mercy when fighting.

"In revising the history of the Yuan Dynasty, I mainly want to compile the 'Great Yuan Unified Records', which is about the territory of the Yuan Dynasty. According to legal inheritance, the current Mongol Kingdom should be the territory of the Ming Dynasty." Shen Li explained why he brought up the old matter again. Since he had already acknowledged it, he had to inherit something.

In short, Shen Li’s goal is: the territory of the Yuan Dynasty is extremely large.

"No, this...the Mongol Kingdom should be within the borders of the Ming Dynasty. Isn't this statement a little illogical?" Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand to interrupt Shen Li.

Zhu Yijun could understand that Shen Li wanted to compile the History of the Unified Yuan Dynasty in order to expand the territory. But wasn't this too much of an exaggeration to say that the entire Mongol Empire should belong to the Ming Dynasty?
According to the Ministry of Rites's law of expanding territory, Moscow, Constantinople, and even Hormuz must be included in the Ming Dynasty's territory. Perhaps after further investigation, Spain and Portugal will also be included in the Ming Dynasty's territory.

After all, Portugal and Spain were actually occupied by the Arabs, and the main country of the Arabs was a vassal state of the Ilkhanate.

"This feng shui map needs to be changed." Shen Li said somewhat dissatisfiedly as he looked at the feng shui map on the Wenhua Hall.

The Ministry of Rites was under tremendous pressure. Felipe II had dealings with the Ming Dynasty under the name of the Empire on which the sun never sets. Every time the Ministry of Rites saw the three words "the sun never sets", they would grit their teeth. This was a huge challenge to etiquette.

"Then let's revise the "Great Yuan Unified History", but be restrained and don't bite off more than you can chew." Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment and looked at Qi Jiguang. Qi Jiguang also looked at the emperor with complicated eyes. The two of them had the same meaning in their glances.

Who can outsmart these scholars?
It takes so much thought to edit a book. If Shen Li doesn't say it directly and clearly, who would know what Shen Li is trying to do?
Zhu Yijun was busy for more than ten years, but he was only able to establish counties and prefectures in Suiyuan. The Overseas Governor's Office was also established in the form of a feudal system, and the territory was expanded according to the map of the Ministry of Rites. Zhu Yijun was busy all his life, but he was unable to establish such a large territory as counties and prefectures.

"I obey your command." Shen Li looked at the geomancy map and decided that the next time he revised the "Complete Map of Mountains and Seas", he must include Portugal. After all, the King of Portugal was a foreign king who wore a five-chapter robe, which was very reasonable.

Felipe did not mean it. The reason why he mentioned that he was the king of the British Empire in every letter was actually to attract the attention of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the arrogance of the Ming Dynasty was deeply rooted. If he did not mention his own achievements, the Ming Dynasty would probably treat Felipe II as a tiny country.

"Your Majesty, there is something." Minister of Works Wang Daokun said in a low voice: "The late emperor's mausoleum needs to be repaired again."

"Well, let's repair it. It will cost money from the treasury. How much is the budget?" Zhu Yijun agreed to the Ministry of Works' request.

"The cost ranges from 30,000 silver coins to 50,000 silver coins. The Leng'en Gate, Leng'en Hall, walls, Ming Tower and other places have sunk severely and have to be repaired." Wang Daokun briefly introduced the situation.

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said, "Why not tear it down and rebuild it? It's not a big deal to just do it this way. The mausoleum of the late emperor was only renovated once in the third year of Wanli, and it needs to be renovated again now."

"Your Majesty, this time there is no difference between demolishing and rebuilding." Wang Daokun briefly introduced the situation of the project. All the collapsed places have to be demolished, and this time they have been replaced with a steel-concrete structure that cannot be burned down.

Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Okay, let's do it."

The imperial tomb of Emperor Longqing is very, very shabby.

In the 18th year of the Jiajing reign, the Taoist priest originally planned to move his parents' tombs to Beijing for burial, and ordered the construction of the Xuan Palace. Later, he felt that his parents had been laid to rest, so after the Xuan Palace was completed, he did not put it into use, but instead built another Xian Mausoleum in Hubei.

In the sixth year of the Longqing reign, Emperor Longqing passed away. He then used the Xuan Palace that had been built by the Taoist priest but had not been put into use. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to build an imperial mausoleum with just 500,000 taels of silver.

It would be fine if it was just an old one, but there wasn't enough money to repair it, so it had to be repaired all the time.

It has to be repaired. After all, after the death of Empress Dowager Chen and Empress Dowager Li, they were to be buried with the late emperor. The late emperor has indeed passed away, and while these two Empress Dowagers are still around, it has to be repaired.

After all, the country still governs the world with filial piety.

(End of this chapter)